Brisbane again proves itself totally unsuitable for hosting an ostensibly summer sport.
Brisbane again proves itself totally unsuitable for hosting an ostensibly summer sport.
Bities like these are a constant worry. Our beach at Woorim, Bribie Island has drum lines that I sincerely hope…
That’s a bit of a stretch. Against preThatcher Labour Blair was a leap forward. History has probably not been so…
Howard should be condemned at every possible opportunity for the state he left the woeful Lieborals, paving the way for…
True. In all honesty, the conservative Anglosphere needs to take a good hard look at some of its heroes and…
I’ll bet you’ve never even been on a building site.
Alamak
The other day I was in a food store and talked to a dude wearing a chef coat (is that what they’re called). We were in line waiting to pay and I got talking to him. He seemed to be buying a small amount of stuff. I asked him about that and he said he was a chef for a family!
gah, this new new catallaxy is configured for 100 comments per page instead of the old 250. It’s just change for the sake of change. STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF.
inb4PHRASING.
Daily Mail.
Hope she remembers to wear knickers to the church!
No, it’s change because – until Dover can get the performance issues sorted once and for all – it is at least reducing the load on the database server a bit and thus keeping things actually going.
the wank-burden on the server is simply too high
wanks per page matter
unfortunately, since most normal commentary has pretty much vapourised , despite the smaller pages, there is still a very high wank-density
it isn’t looking good
Until the true source of the metaphorical wanking is addressed, beating around the page length bush is unlikely to resolve your wankery trauma.
What bait do you use Sanchez. Live or lure?
too many pages
too many mongs
not enough bob the builder banter
I got nothing. I’m going to bed.
Rapidly expanding.
Not even a tranny in gym gear before you go?
MatrixTransform
Jul 11, 2023 10:50 PM
I don’t know Matrix, I follow a trade site (food industry) with many times the members of this blog and it’s lightning fast.
Not complaining mind, appreciate the efforts of Dover and thanks.
If it’s a matter of funds, offers have been made.
Links to that have disappeared as well.
Not even a tranny in gym gear before you go?
Alright, I wouldn’t do this for just anyone: cute owl. The chains are for head prefect. No sticky fingers.
I’m not opening the link Cronkite.
So there.
If only there was more post hoc’ing.
Err, I wasn’t seriously asking for that.
No.
Post hoc’ing is bad.
The worst.
How about ad hoc’ing then?
No hoc’ing of any description.
Ad or post.
Poor form.
At least that’s not nebulous though.
WTF! You’d think the pilot in command would be legally responsible for all radio communication with ATC. I think the pilot might have a few words spoken to him about this.
With that said, all readback was correct.
It should put a smile on your face.
6-YEAR-OLD GIRL talking on Frequency | Controller loves it!
Attending a conference in Bavaria. Quote of the day by a Frau who got a bit mixed up: ‘ To climb everest first you must slice your elephant into little pieces!’ ???
Vicki wrote:
My reading of some of the estimates of writers some 70 or so years ago – before the invective started – is probably around 300,000.
Over time I have come to conclude that fatality counts in many instances of conflict are extremely exaggerated.
Why so? Because it’s beneficial in most cases to exaggerate.
If you are the winner, magnifying the number of dead on their side makes you seem brave and mighty. Doing the same on your side shows how brave you were.
If you are the loser, it can paint the winner as homicidal and nasty. Also showing you resisted bravely.
In a lot of medieval and ancient battles, bodies are almost entirely missing from mass graves afterwards. This is in countries where burial rather than cremation is the norm.
Cases in point include Towton – supposedly seeing 26,000 killed on one day. More than the Battle of the Somme, yet with club and edge and missile weapons rather than firearms.
A second example is the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Burial pits containing many hundreds have not been located.
Another is Darwin 1942, where “many hundreds” more have been alleged to have died on the Allied side rather than the 236 provable.
There are many more such examples.
To prove Aboriginal dead in Australia beyond doubt you’d need photographic or burial evidence.
No Shit.
WSJ
Ted Cruz should be on the Supreme Court.
Story
Ted Cruz Lays Out Road Map for Next Big Conservative Supreme Court Battle
Slowly, but it’s happening. A black woman moving over to the GOP is a big deal even if it’s the Georgia state house. She wants to see school choice which the Demons refuse because of the Teacher unions.
You go girl.
https://beckernews.com/georgia-democrat-switches-to-gop-claiming-she-was-tormented-and-deserted-by-her-own-party-51073/
Top Ender
Jul 12, 2023 12:55 AM
She is a fine contributor but I feel she has an undue fascination with everything aboriginal.
Not every stone is significant or meaningful. Patterns do happen in nature without human interference and even it was done by humans, so what?
Is every campsite where you boiled a billy sacred? Or just the ones where aboriginals roasted a roo?
John Spooner.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Earlier this year, Justice Michael Lee found ten imputations put forward by the national broadcaster did hold defamatory meanings following a preliminary hearing in November 2022.
This Michael Lee is good.
PS the ABC redacted its documents?
In other words, that’s obstructing the discovery process.
The next time someone has a legal stoush with the ABC they should redact their documents & see how quickly the ABC howls about that.
Thanks Tom.
Nigel Farage – War on Cash
https://youtu.be/EsQ7SMEUWoQ
Only 4 minutes or so.
I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
– Clint Eastwood
Meanwhile in Hobart:
Do you think the William Crowther statue should be taken down?
Yes 23 %
No 77 %
495 votes
Mercury but paywalled
Do you think the William Crowther statue should be taken down?
He played for Manly in the 70’s didn’t he?
Or Newtown?
Crowther is the noted haberdasher who also championed Tasmania’s first bicycle lane.
Obviously.
BBC apparently has a huge scandal resting on it’s belly with one of their prominent news presenters being suspended for buying porn pics of a 17 year old boy.
4chan has identified him. I bet, I’d bet he isn’t the only one there as the place would be infested with them.
I just can’t get over the ABC providing redacted documents during the discovery process.
Who precisely do they think they are?
Exposing the Corruption of Albo and ASIC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuuS_0LsTbo
Great article from the Daily Sceptic, don’t know how applicable to the modern human world it is but makes me think it’s what’s happening to the west. The meek won’t inherit the earth, those who have something to fight for will.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/11/the-mice-that-gave-up-reproducing-and-died-out/
Extremely curious. Two allegations now and first alleged victim denies it.
Utterly brilliant. Who was it that said show me the man and I’ll show you the crime? This is a case study of that for a man who is hated for encouraging men to stand up and be themselves.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 9 The Andrew Tate interview
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42003496
Internet pranksters tried to start a hoax campaign to change the cross on the Swedish flag to a Turkish-style crescent and star. Although a few people were tricked, the lacklustre response to the campaign co-ordinated on 4chan could be a sign that the extreme message board’s influence on internet culture is starting to wane.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, little buddy.
Tate is a fraud.
Tucker Carlson will be feted in history as one of the heroes of the Reset Resistance- but I hope he doesn’t sleepwalk into becoming another one of these cyclical podcasters-podcaster’s guests, masticating each others’ life stories for teatowel slogan affirmations.
He needs to get back to headlines, current affairs and bulletin news. I’d subscribe for that.
The Guardian can hardly contain its glee as it reports today that academics from the University of Melbourne, University of QLD & Princeton have issued a report saying nuclear is too expensive and too slow in development to contribute to Australia’s net zero by 2050 emissions target. (You hear that, Peter Dutton…the experts have spoken.)
However, after modelling six scenarios, they also concede there are “too many uncertainties to map a single path to net zero” and call for more government intervention to make it happen.
So, it’s up to you, Chris Bowen.
Truly, only academics could be this stupid (closely followed by the journalists who have outsourced their thinking to them).
Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
The FBI is a clear and present danger to The United States of America. It cannot continue to exist in any form or it will end the nation.
Bullshit.
It all goes down to scale. This is evident if the costs of shale oil is compared to gas, conventional oil or tar sands.
Nuclear is the most scalable of all because it is the most energy intensive.
Meme
The reason the left and the communist media have the hots for Net Zero is the bit they won’t say out loud: Net Zero means net zero capitalism and therefore net zero economy.
Net Zero is the battle cry of Year Zero communism.
Biden’s DOJ Seeks 100 Years in Jail for Whistleblower in Bid ‘To Protect Joe, Jim, and Hunter’.
The Australian Electoral Commission’s war on democracy continues unabated:
and
Unbelievable. And far from being a model litigant. The judge should throw the case out, and award Kelly full costs.
Who is the Nous Group?
LOL!
Do these idiots realise that electricity has increased in price by 40% + year on year whilst “renewables are accelerated”?
Someone mentioned Rosanne Barr’s most excellent definition of a woman the other day.
Here’s the whole interview with Piers Morgan, but the ‘definition of woman’ onwards is a good snippet. Watch to the end.
https://youtu.be/1zzXZOICjWA?t=721
Exposing the Corruption of Albo and ASIC!
Razey, can you keep us posted on the ASIC stuff.
The rumours regarding big wigs at ASIC have been around for a while.
If there is a mainstream media type breaking a story, it’s been a long time coming.
Being cynical, I expect your youtuber to post a video on why there was no story.
A little like Hannity & his Tick, Tock schtick.
I think what they’re aiming for is a government controlled economy with the big corporates in the box seat.
Just yesterday the Business Council of Australia, which represents the CEOs of Australias hundred largest companies, was calling for the government to issue five year plans for how we are to reach the 0/2050 target.
It’s crony capitalism on a scale hitherto unimagined.
Martin Goldberg recently noted a lot of podcasts are becoming alike and repetitive as they’re all shilling each other and shilling worse and worse products.
Robert Kyosaki on Rollo Tomassi?
Jesus.
“The Guardian can hardly contain its glee as it reports today that academics from the University of Melbourne, University of QLD & Princeton have issued a report saying nuclear is too expensive”.
No “experts” needed to say that renewables are both too expensive and too unreliable.
You wonder why that elderly student activist who ” Fights Tories” wants to censor internet dissent.
Miranda Devine hitting it out of the park again on the Biden crime family.
https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1676790337388400640
If you’re an academic on a generous publicly provided salary with all mod renewable cons at home (all subsidised directly or through rebates by government) the rising cost of electricity is only an abstract notion that spurs your research on towards to the sunlit uplands where power will be too cheap to meter.
Another excellent article in The Oz by Dr Janet.
What a goofball.
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What happened to him in the Romanian courts was complete bullshit and ironically is the best thing he ever did – he called out the naked Emperor.
His life story too, is nonsense.
He was never a great fighter (his record of fighting wins and losses changes like his self reported wealth). He is not intimidating (he’s an awkward goof). He’s not a trillionare as he has claimed. He’s possibly not even a millionaire. He didn’t grow up poor.
Tate’s father wasn’t USAF intelligence, he was CIA and got in hot water over the sex trade in SE Asia.
Use the correct title” Fascism.
The Guardian can hardly contain its glee as it reports today that academics from the University of Melbourne, University of QLD & Princeton have issued a report saying nuclear is too expensive
I can’t bring myself to read the Guardian. Were these “academics” power engineers or economics/political paper shufflers?
Here is an interesting article about applying the principles of financial risk management to public policy. A couple of tasters:
and
Of course, some people (e.g. Bjorn Lomborg on climate) are already using this approach. But if the nitwits in the Commonwealth and State treasuries had used these tools before standing at the top floor windows and hurling billions of dollars out during Covid, we would be in a very much better position than we are at present. As the author points out, blowing all that money for small returns leaves us in a much weaker position if we hit another speed bump in the next few years, which is quite likely to happen.
A more considered and proper course of action for passionate directors is to use their own money on the Yes campaign, not shareholders’ money.
I’ve more chance of winning Lotto than this happening .. and I don’t buy Lotto tix .. LOL!
China calls for the UN to displace people and financialise the natural world in the name of “biodiversity”
Chicago suburb starts making $25K reparations payouts in ‘test run for the whole country’
Feeble Joe Biden Skips NATO Dinner, Heads Straight to His Hotel Room
Heart Pacemaker Manufacturer Warns users to Keep Distance from EV Charging Stations
Documents Provide Rare Glimpse Into How Arabella Advisors Exerts Centralized Control Over a Vast Left-Wing Advocacy Network
Unsold Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Their Thousands on Dealer Lots
What we all here know but Prof Jim says it eloquently and decisively.
Biden Makes Biggest Blunder in History of Modern Warfare
For a pandemic, public-health authorities make recommendations to politicians, whose job it is to weigh the trade-offs—lowering infection rates versus social isolation and economic disruption from the restrictions potentially imposed. These politicians are accountable to voters.
Reality is politicians don’t care about accountability cos they know that by the time the next election comes around folk are more focus-ed on the next lot of “promised” freebies than the, failured, materialization of the previous lot ..
Which is why the duds keep getting re-elected time after time .. Politics 101 ..
More creaking from the car industry as they get torn apart in opposite directions by competing government and customers. Three articles I saw this morning:
Unsold electric cars are piling up on dealer lots (10 Jul, via Powerline)
Toyota Calls Biden’s EPA Plan To Boost EV Sales “Unrealistic” (12 Jul)
Renault Says A “Chinese Storm” Is Coming For Europe’s EV Industry (11 Jul)
The Left thinks they can write an edict and magically 67% of car sales in 2032 will be electric. But they oppose mining of the metals needed, so there aren’t enough batteries. Then the actual market for these overpriced electric Trabants is really quite small: limited to the green religious types and cashed-up inner city dwellers. The rest of the people, which is most of them, will hold onto their increasingly elderly ICE cars and utes for dear life.
The Germans have already started to realize that car manufacturing is becoming impossible in that country, and it’s going to be the same in the rest of the EU and the US. At least the likes of Renault and Toyota are starting to cautiously and timidly point this out.
Tintarella di Luna
Jul 11, 2023 6:58 PM
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Jul 11, 2023 7:18 PM
You are both welcome.
Will try and get the goss on the semi-finalist selection.
At least two vanilla-flavoured duds inexplicably managed to make the grade.
This is usual in these Comps, so better not get too excited.
PS. Didn’t realise I made a word wall with the last post, it looked different in the text editor…
Dot links to rollingstone … rollingstone ffs. Unbelievable.
D*ckhead.
—-
That Tucker interview with Tate is worth your time. I’m 50 mins in.
DeSantis’ Problem Isn’t Trump, It’s That Dems Rigged The Last Election
If we on the ‘No’ side didn’t know better, we’d say those on the ‘Yes’ side were already making excuses for what many of them now think will be a loss. Don’t be fooled. This proposal deserves to lose because it’s a bad idea.
Well said, that man! .. Luv it! …..
I am listening to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Andrew Tate and am surprised at Tate’s self awareness, his attitude to God* and his relationship with him. His attitude to society is more Darwinian though. You would think Tate reads the Cat, he certainly has the time now.
*Tate mentioned that he was reading the Koran so I expect he is a Muslim.
Thank goodness for rational reasonable people making logical arguments against the Voice.
I’m sick of objectors being dismissed as racists.
politicians, whose job it is to weigh the trade-offs
I’m not into this anaemic neutering of what the U.S. calls “lawmakers”.
Each representative politician is elected on the explicit understanding that they have personal convictions on law, life, liberty, economy, environment, and that they will act in accordance with those principles for their term, or term as minister. The idea that anyone- press, constituents, industry bodies, advisors, their own appointees, international Climate Clubs, made up things like Chief Medical Officers or National Cabinets- saying to them “OMG but this is an unprecedented once in 100 years pandemic/fire season/invasion” and then they fall into lockstep with the Lizard People’s dictums, is pathetic.
We should not tolerate it in theory, or retrospect.
Never forget.
Never forgive.
Shut up moron.
People here can read links and discern what is going on. RS is another CIA compromised publication. Did you see where I said Tate’s father was CIA too?
Tate got punished for going off script.
Tate is an idiot and a fraud. He’s a “Muslim” (so why would Isl critics even bother?) and has said it’s okay to date trannies.
I have the receipts, so STFU Trickler.
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/andrew-tate-accused-of-being-gay-saying-have-sex-with-transwoman
*Islam
Molly Meldrum claimed to have read the koran, back in the day.
Pfft.
Plus unless you read it in the original Arabic you don’t really get it, allegedly.
Are “red pilled manospherians” advocating for male – tranny relationships just part of ‘Da Matrix’? Inquirin’ minds wanna know.
As soon as a man tells you to have sex with trannies, they’ve lost all credibility to preach to you about Da Masculinity.
I didn’t know who Tate was now I’m sorry I do.
The real problem is that almost all of these supposed tail risks are fake.
The Left has an incentive to declare existential emergencies at the drop of a hat, since they can use them to subvert democratic controls to get their cherished aims through where they couldn’t otherwise.
About the only one that might be real is nuclear war. Which no one can do much about anyway, so we should stop worrying and love the Bomb. I must watch the movie again, it’s such a fine black comedy.
Hey Dot!
[ middle finger ]
Dot is a fraud.
A decent man would be telling men to find a decent woman and get married.
Not discuss the choices presented in that article.
Good luck in recruiting for Special Air Service Regiment and Commandos after this one!
Let me explain rosie.
Tate is a goofy, awkward fraud who is a likely CIA asset (as his father was), advocates for “masculinity” and sex with trannies, who went off script and got railroaded thereafter.
rosie
Jul 12, 2023 9:02 AM
I didn’t know who Tate was now I’m sorry I do.
That’s rich coming from a brainwashed vax pusher who’s linked to nearly every Big-Pharma backed news source on the subject.
Some things should never be forgotten ….!
https://ibb.co/WGQ628K
Erm…if this fellow – whoever he is – is a Muslim he doesn’t have a “relationship with God”; rather, he is a slave to Allah.
Only Christians have a familial relationship with God, being his sons (and daughters) through the Son, Christ.
Thankyou Dot, Rollo Tomassi reminded me to watch the movie again. It’s been a while. For a moment I thought The Usual Suspects, but that was Keyser Soze. Same character though. Another excellent movie.
You linked to rollingstone, Dot.
Obviously you don’t know their history.
D*ckhead.
I don’t advise young straight men wanting to reclaim their lives and to be successful to bang transsexuals – gender dysphoric men in drag.
Hate me, but I’ll never be as bad as Andrew Tate, fake kickboxer, fake millionaire, fake red piller, fake Christian, fake Muslim and fake dating coach (he’s a cockroach, so this might check out).
Have a good day folks.
I find it hard to believe that nuclear energy, used on a mass scale in several countries, is ‘too expensive’. BTW, that appears to be the principal complaint used by the elites, why are it’s manifest benefits never mentioned?
I linked to RS, which I trust most people have discernment to read through the bias, which I also consequently shat on and I showed you the receipts in Evie Magazine about Tate’s tranny fetish.
You are essentially complaining that I trust you to think for yourself (and also that I have the receipts). Only one person on earth can make that better or worse and it ain’t me, champ.
Entebbe, Bibi Netanyahu’s brother gave his life.
Still, he’s not as bad as Richard Hanania.
He ought to acknowledge publicly that the universities are mouthpieces the renewable industry, that they have invested heavily in it in terms of the courses they teach, and more likely than not, in terms of outright investment.
The days of the hallowed halls of academe, with its dotty professors who shuffle awkwardly about in our world but transformed young, tall, and sinewy in their studies, have long gone – expelled as despised relics of white patriarchy to be vilified and then forgotten.
Universities are now the abode of the angry, self-adoring, narrow-minded ideologue, stung anew every day that their prescriptions for the whole world are not accepted by the mass of people they think so far below them – but who actually make the world work.
Go to an engineering consultancy, one with experience in nuclear and can provide a real costing, rather than leaving it to some people who ‘model’ it.
I do not think I saw what departments at the Australian universities were involved in the report. A rather striking omission I thought.
It’s not surreal.
It’s perfect.
The tail risks that loom large in our minds tend to be existential—events that will kill many people, like a lethal pandemic, climate catastrophe, nuclear war, or an asteroid smashing the planet.
Not too worry! .. as I wrote yesterday I have a definite “au revoir” date so youse is all safe from an ‘end of world” catastrophe for a few years yet ..!
I find it almost funny that every few minutes Tate states that he is not suicidal and will not kill himself.
Because the elites are heavily invested in renewables.
(If that wasn’t a rhetorical question.)
Yep, still not sorry im not devoting many hours of my life to ‘Tate’.
And yes I’m all in for Big Pharma and whatever Big Pharma backed is.
In the aftermath of that raid, as the first of the films was being produced, a Hollywood mogul suggested making a film, using the actual commandos who had taken part in the raid.
The I.D.F. pointed out their lives wouldn’t be worth a cracker….
Tate reminds me of the Will Smith movie The Hitch.
Yes when it comes to renewables, follow the money, whether it’s wind and solar or the appalling carbon credits it seems to be an endless flow of funds from the humble PAYG taxpayer to Big Wind, Big Solar, Big Carbon Farm and the only people on the inside are the spivs and spruikers.
Heard on the news ukeland is going to be rushed through the joining of NATO. Therefore guaranteeing it will cease to exist. The neocons sure do want a war with Russia. On the good side a name change will be easy for what is left. Nukeland. Time for the Russkies to target some neocons I think.
NATO says ‘No’ to Ukraine again. The pics of Zelensky standing alone while they ham it up are incredible.
The elites love everything French and consider everything coming from them to be absolutely the bees knees. Even nuclear energy is OK for the French but not anyone else. Cognitive dissonance is now the major attribute of the elites.
Good luck in recruiting for Special Air Service Regiment and Commandos after this one!
It would be a lot easier to accept this political piffle if she was referring to a”conventional” war situation .. uniforms v uniforms with the Geneva Convention in the background but this is about batting ‘terrorism’ where the enemy is everyone but the uniforms .. give the benefit of doubt to the local farmer, housewife or schoolkid and get shot in the back/blown up and not forgetting those wearing uniforms pretending to be gummint loyalists whilst waiting for their chance to kill ..
Good luck with that .. FFS!
It would appear even the neo-cons aren’t that stupid.
Lions led by donkeys.
Biden Administration Says It Opposes Using ‘Merit’ in Military Personnel Decisions (11 Jul)
Stacking the military with true believers is a necessary step to prevent the Left from being Pinocheted. They might find have a tiny weenie problem fighting an actual war though.
Exactly. And did you hear the bit about all of the media lying about him all of the time?
This is the first time I’ve ever set eyes on him and I hadn’t really been aware of him before, beyond his name, but I have to say that this is someone who knows how to express himself and has successfully identified many of the issues facing us today. He is absolutely right in saying that in the second half of last century you could go along to get along and still have a decent life but that this certainly is not the case now. Without resistance there will be no normal life or any glimmer of freedom in the future.
What he said about degrading the masculinity of men in the West while at the same time importing hundreds of thousands of high testosterone immigrants also rang a bell. As did the comment that Putin ended Covid. I hadn’t made that connection before.
There was certainly a bit of braggadocio but mostly a great deal of common sense. He seems to focus on practical matters while understanding the forces at play around us.
The regulatory hurdles generate massive upfront costs and timelags, with no way of knowing whether approval will be given. This means that the money spent on getting to sod-turning stage is very high risk, hence very expensive in terms of opportunity cost of those funds.
Given that large scale nuclear power plants are now a mature technology, the imposition of the disproportionate regulatory hurdles is simply a way of preventing these proposals from coming to fruition.
OTOH, you can get approval of wind and solar ‘farms’ or massive powerlines linking them to the grid comparatively quickly and easily, no matter what the genuine environmental concerns might be.
In his one regard I agree with knickerless Brittney, Linda Reynolds was given the Defence portfolio simply to stop the misogyny accusations from Labor, Greens and the media. She, and most women, are not suited to that job. Sometimes I think most of the parliamentarians are not suited to any jobs.
Andrew Tate seriously claimed he was a trillionaire.
Which would make him richer than 13 wealthiest people/families on earth combined at a minimum.
The guy is delusional.
Take advice off a delusional person, what could possibly go wrong?
Andrew Tate is not a man other men, particularly disaffected young men, should model themselves after.
There are better role models for young men.
Tate used the word God, never mentioned Allah. The only reason I assumed he was Muslim is that he mentioned reading the Koran but not mention the Bible.
It’s the vibe, literally.
A search reveals he converted to Islam last year.
Further to what I wrote upthread, this is why you’ll never hear a Muslim refer to God as “Father” or “our Father”, as Christians are taught to do by Jesus.
Economic modellers.
The worst.
The Grauniad-moistening Net Zero Australia report actually came out in April. Written for wonks with the patience of Job, it is a masterpiece of green fantasy that probably takes stenographers a few months to digest.
Brim full of astonishing assumptions: by 2050:
• EV’s everywhere;
• A fully formed hydrogen economy – either thanks to the Sun, or by reforming natural gas and burying the naughty CO2;
• Agricultural practices transformed – forget fertiliser, meat, and high emission cropping;
• Australia no longer exports coal and gas;
• Australia no longer exports iron ore etc – but becomes a World Hub for green metals, because plentiful hydrogen (see above) and more efficient transport density;
• Apparently solar panels, batteries, and windmills never break down, or reach the end of their effective lives;
• The oil and gas industry voluntarily goes into care and maintenance mode in order to produce Satan’s Energy a few days per year (literally) when the renewable system is under stress;
• Luddites like Farmer Gez can get stuffed, there will be infrastructure everywhere – except for where “the Indigenous Estate” says otherwise.
In an unexpected flash of candour the Authors note: “The physical and social changes of the transition to net zero emissions are immense and are not necessarily benign.”
But Transitioned Australia will be a Nirvana – a beacon to the World.
Oh, and the report doesn’t completely rule out noocular: “We also only see a potential role for nuclear electricity generation if its cost falls sharply and the growth of renewables is constrained.”
Walked to the bus stop this morning. An elderly couple were hanging around the bus stop, and they were wearing t-shirts with the words “Wentworth votes “YES”. I recognised the couple from last year, when they spruiked for Allegra prior to the 2022 federal election. They are, no doubt, very well-heeled, Wentworth retirees with too much time on their hands.
I wasn’t rude however when the women asked if I’d take a brochure and if I’d have a chat with her, I said, politely and firmly, that I will be voting NO. I then said the following, again politely….
“I find it arrogant that you are both wearing t-shirts proclaiming “Wentworth votes “YES”. You don’t know this, you don’t speak for everyone living in this electorate, and there will be many people who, like me, will be voting NO.”
Funny…I think the Guardian left that bit out.
After seeing photos of biden at the beach- I’ve now realized why he shuffles along, trips on stairs, keels off bikes and sh*ts himself-
the vain old fag wears a corset.
Crossie, was this chap reading it for spiritual guidance, or because of academic interest?
Though I’ve not read the entire Koran (or read it much at all) I’ve read most hadiths, great reams of “The Teachings of Buddha” & the Book of Mormon.
Likewise I’ve read great heaps of Marx, especially Das Kapital & the communist manifesto, lost of Mao’s little red book, & Mein Kampf.
I’m not & never have had any inclination, to have been: Muslim, Buddhist, Mormon, Communist, or Nazi.
(Communist Manifesto & Mao’s little red book – being short easy reads, designed for dumbasses, are the only ones of the above which aren’t turgid, boring, insomnia cures)
This makes me really really really really really hope for Roberts-Smith to prevail at appeal.
The potatoes are out in force.
A good role model:
Your. Dad.
OK…let’s start with the Generals.
I would say I must have misheard Dover but probably not as the local newsreaders get it wrong all the time. English is almost a second language to them even if it’s the only one they know. One of the best things about the Cat is commenters delving deep into newsworthy articles, finding the original statement. I tell my wife about something only for her to hear about it a couple of days later and the story is reported with context removed or changed to suit the lefts view. Lying by omission is their favorite. I have been sucked in myself not checking.
I’m now completely convinced Tate is great.
Easy tiger.
I blame the chemtrails.
Well said!
The politicians and generals send soldiers to a place where the choice is to commit what is probably a war crime or almost certainly get killed eventually by a disguised enemy. And they talk about consulting ethicists.
Putting women into politics was the dumbest thing the West ever did.
The word “burger” seems to be somewhat malleable lately.
‘This is not a joke:’ Burger with only cheese released (11 Jul)
Meanwhile here ourlocal Hungry Jacks, which is the Australian arm of Burger King, has again proudly put up a big banner advertising their fake meat Vegeburger. I sure that business will be brisk…at the Maccas across the road.
The absence or diminution of these things in the West are the result of political decisions.
It could have been worse, they could have treated him like they did Trump.
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Re Gabor’s suggestion that I am a bit soft of Aborigines:
At the risk of boring everyone, I thought I should outline my experience over the years with Aborigines. I will do this because although quite a few Cats have had personal experiences, many have not, and may or may not be interested.
I guess my interest in them was sparked as a teenager when I first glimpsed two young Aboriginal teenagers (a girl and a boy) at the Sydney Royal Easter Show many many decades ago. I think they were probably brought on a holiday by a Christian mission as they were smartly dressed in new dress and pants. They stood shyly alongside a cattle pavilion, eying the crowds of local visitors. They were the first Aborigines that I believed I had seen – very black, thin, and (I thought) tall.
Little did I know at that time in my life that my uncle (on my dad’s side) had married a part Aboriginal woman. Aunty Betty was quite dark skinned, as was her mother (“Chook”), but it didn’t strike me as unusual. Both women were more kind hearted than many other female relatives on both sides of the family.
I must be a bit daft or I don’t see “colour” because years later we employed a part Aboriginal man as a manager of one of our companies and it didn’t occur to me that he may be indigenous. It wasn’t until an acquaintance inquired if we were still employing “that boong” that I realised that he was part Aboriginal. I must say that it then did explain how he sometimes went “walkabout” mentally. And it was very disappointing when he became quite bitter when we promoted someone else (who did a far better job) to an important position. He left shortly after to work for a competitor.
My next encounter with an Aborigine was with a full blood Yankunyjtjara man from the Central Desert. I think I may have related this before…….I met him through an Aboriginal art dealer who he worked for. I was beginning an art collection of desert art at the time, so I encountered him quite a lot. I always found him to be respectful and kind. Nonetheless, at one stage he was charged with an assault in a bar & quite a few of his friends – including little me & a Norwegian diplomat- were character witnesses at his trial. He served time in Maitland gaol (as I recall) & was asked by the warden to stay to work there as he was helping some youngsters. We lost track of him for a number of years & then heard that he had married a white woman – but was “beating the tripe out of her”. We were quite amazed to hear that – but there it is – “traditional culture.”
Otherwise, we have travelled all over outback Australia and have seen for ourselves the hellholes of places like Yuendemu. So I don’t really think I am “soft” on Aborigines. I always favoured the policy of Assimilation which has worked so obviously well for countless urban Aborigines, and those of Aboriginal descent. A decent education and the opportunities of cities has allowed them to live a modern life. It was the idiot policy of “return to country” of Nuggett Coombes and his idealistic Labor acolytes that fostered the cesspools in the remote communities.
We all need to oppose the Yes vote as fiercely as we can. It is wrong in every possible way, and will cause division in this country that will be almost unsurmountable.
Entebbe, Sorin Hershko stayed on in the army, beyond the end of his enlistment, to remain in the team & on the raid. Took a bullet in the spine toward the end of the raid, has been 100% paralyzed ever since.
Odd, that.
But no doubt Team Albanese has a cunning plan to avoid the horrors and deliver sparkly unicorns instead.
Speaking of that august tome…
More Nauseating Climate Grief from the Guardian (10 Jul)
We’re definitely not in Kansas anymore Toto. Did I just see a flying monkey?
Chatting to an Indian guy who is a vegetarian.He and his mate were wandering around Melbourne and saw a sign offering cheeseburgers at McDonalds.
Thought they would be ok .It wasnt until they had scoffed them that it dawned on them
what theyy had eaten
I expect I would struggle with Tim Winton on matters environmental. Although possibly not for the same reasons as your average Grauniad reader.
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Thank you for this post, Dover. It confirmed my conclusion that the Russian standard of living has changed radically since I was there in the days of Glasnost. I chanced upon a video of a tourist in Moscow who was in a shopping mall & was amazed that it duplicated what we see in western countries – from the brands of outlets to the carparks full of late model vehicles. I was astonished.
How human affairs and events overturn our comfortable conclusions.
Dr Faustus does the cunning plan involve a turnip or the usual sausage.
“Entebbe, Bibi Netanyahu’s brother gave his life.”
Back in the 1990s I had a relationship with one of the IDF commandos from that raid. As he told me, nobody was going to save the Jews at Entebbe apart from Jews of Israel, and that’s what the Jews of Israel did.
Several factors about Entebbe are worth mentioning..
1. The terrorist scum who hijacked the plane were made up of Palestinians and two German Baader Meinhoff cockroaches (including a woman). Their names were Wilfried Bose and Brigitte Kuhlmann. Both were shot dead during the operation. Good, you don’t negotiate with garbage.
2. The French pilot of the Air France plane was a man by the name of Michel Bacos. When the terrorists scum separated the Jews from the non-Jews, Bacos refused to abandon and leave his Jewish passengers, and was with them when Israeli commandos released them. Bacos died in 2019. A true hero.
3. When separating the Jews from the non-Jews, a Holocaust survivor showed German hijacker Wilfried Bose his camp registration number tattooed on his arm. Apparently Bose protested “I’m no Nazi! I am an idealist”. Of course he was an idealist, and those words sum up the far-left.
I could go on. And I haven’t forgotten Dora Bloch, an British Jewish woman who was taken to hospital and never seen again.
Israel had watched the slaughter in Munich, when the Germans f*cked up the operation, refused any Israeli help, and the result? 11 murdered Jews, in Germany. Israel vowed that such slaughter would never happen again, and that next time they would take matters into their own hands, and that’s what they did four years later in Entebbe.
The Guardian can hardly contain its glee as it reports today that academics from the University of Melbourne, University of QLD & Princeton have issued a report saying nuclear is too expensive
I bet that all of the Nations and Countries that have Nuclear Power, with the exception of ‘Once Great Britain’ maybe, have cheaper electricity prices than Australia, the ‘Cleva’ Country.
Wind farms vs whales.
Wind farms to be built in NSW Hunter and Central Coast regions despite community backlash (Sky News, 12 Jul)
The whale killing study the Feds are afraid to do (11 Jul)
I’m sure Mr Bowen is very concerned for the environment, so will immediately commission an urgent study for the NSW offshore wind farm effects on the southern right whale migration.
Ah, who am I kidding?
not correcting this culture as it developed was a failure of unit and higher command. – Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell
Am I reading this right? Reynolds is pointing the finger specifically at General Campbell?
Hand ya medals back sonny.
Good luck in recruiting for Special Air Service Regiment and Commandos after this one!
I love the liberal use of the word allegation, without any hint of irony.
How about some evidence?!
Tate is like Russell Brand
A self-promoter with no convictions, but the gift of loghorrhea, who can see which way the wind is blowing and wants the customers who come with the zeitgeist.
Carlson- and Catallaxians- should stay off his bandwagon.
The cunning plan is being implemented by a pack of ‘thingies’ that resemble turnips.
An intersting post, Cassie. From what I’ve read of the raid, all the crew of the aircraft stayed with the Jewish passengers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMR8a8nCM4c
That’s harsh. Brand realises he was wrong and hates the state crushing the little guy with crony capitalism.
That’s a good start.
Again from what I’ve read, the German police who bungled the operation had no counterterrorist or sniper training – they were more used to writing traffic tickets and breaking up fights on Friday night. The West German constitution wouldn’t allow them to call in the army…
Cassie at 10:58.
Legitimate grievances again.
Echoes of certain events at a Sydney chocolate shop.
Two Commando had built a replica of the Lindt Cafe, and worked out how to storm it, but the senior police officer in charge thought handing over to the Army would damage their career, and, besides, there were all these Mooslime voters in Western Sydney…..
Elon is so far ahead of everyone else it’s ridiculous.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for record-breaking 16th time, lands on ship at sea (11 Jul)
“Again from what I’ve read, the German police who bungled the operation had no counterterrorist or sniper training – they were more used to writing traffic tickets and breaking up fights on Friday night. The West German constitution wouldn’t allow them to call in the army…”
Israel begged the West Germans to allow IDF personnel to assist. It was refused. IDF personnel flew to Munich and watched in real time as Jews were murdered.
Never ever again.
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Phone addiction news.
Zoo asks visitors to stop showing phone videos to gorillas (10 Jul, via Instapundit)
Sounds a lot like another species of ape.
I used to have a book on the Entebbe raid. Got lost in the move overseas several times along with others. When Jews say “never again” they mean it, not like the mealy mouthed scum we have for government we have been stuck with for so long now. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong place. How did we end up with such useless government of all persuasions. Middle income welfare I suppose but it started a long time before that.
quoting a contact at the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association,
Why am I not surprised he involved the Israelies .. LOL!
Purple party.
Jim Chalmers is ‘moving in the right direction’ with his financial management (12 Jul)
Just in case you didn’t think the Liberal Party could get any leftier.
As the only resident Turnip, I deny any involvement in this plan.
It’s just not cunning enough.
Oh dear Special Ed has checked his CCTV feed from the British Embassy. He must have the longest penis in history. There’s no end to the prick.
I just watched a show on TheirABCTV called Great Australian Stuff, billed as being about important Australian inventions. It was a mixed bag, at best.
Firstly, who knew that Aborigines were the first people to make bread on the planet? The ‘evidence’ was the grooves commonly found around the place showing that somebody ground something there at some point. QED, apparently.
Secondly, again and again, we had the ‘business and advertising victimising wimmenses’ theme – one presenter even said that ‘advertising directed at women has always been appalling.’
The part about Vincents and Bex was not too bad – although claiming that the advertising was directed at women is misleading. In 1971, I had a job in retail where my male boss was hooked on them, taking one every couple of hours. It wasn’t just about bored housewives who needed a career to fulfil them. Also, I distinctly remember a jingle that went ‘take Vincents with confidence’ which was omitted, no doubt due to sloppy research.
It was interesting to learn that the Hills Hoist was invented by someone else a good while before, often the fate of inventors who lack capital and marketing skills. The disdain for traditional suburban life just kept seeping through, though.
5/10, which is better than most of their ‘documentary’ efforts.
A turnip disguised as a thingy is pretty cunning. You do have to have a can of Coke as well of course. Things go better with Coke.
Cassie
Israel had watched the slaughter in Munich, when the Germans f*cked up the operation, refused any Israeli help, and the result? 11 murdered Jews, in Germany. Israel vowed that such slaughter would never happen again, and that next time they would take matters into their own hands, and that’s what they did four years later in Entebbe.
If you have not come across him, check out books by Daniel Silva. The principal character, Gabriel Allon, is an Israeli intelligence agent (moonlights as a restorer of Old Masters), who started off as one of the men sent to kill the Munich kidnappers.
Read the link, clown.
The objectives in the British diplomat’s communication were all realised.
Either the guy had second sight or he was passing on the facts.
Since those facts weren’t for public consumption and were only released 30 years later, it’s reasonable to assume they’re true.
.. while confined in a relatively small enclosure and locked in an even smaller cage at night.
They don’t do irony, do they?
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jul 12, 2023 11:47 AM
when the Germans f*cked up the operation,
Again from what I’ve read, the German police who bungled the operation had no counterterrorist or sniper training – they were more used to writing traffic tickets and breaking up fights on Friday night. The West German constitution wouldn’t allow them to call in the army…
The end result for the Germans was the establishment of GSG-9 as a specialist counter-terror unit. IIRC, they assaulted successfully an aircraft hijacked to Somalia.
That is why he has never been circumcised – the doctor couldn’t find the end of the prick.
If Turd Case thinks that everything ever written in any classified diplomatic communication is true, he has led a very sheltered life. Or he is an idiot. Or both, probably both.
Ranga – Israel sadly is going down the same lefty rabbithole as everywhere else in the West.
Protests across Israel ahead of vote on judicial overhaul bill vote (9 Jul)
Rabbi David Stav: Current political divisions reminiscent of what destroyed Temple’ (11 Jul)
The Left are playing for all the marbles. They totally control the Israeli judiciary and AG’s office, and are using that to persecute Netanyahu, like the DoJ is doing to Trump. Democracy is out the window, and the 600,000 protesters who demonstrated in support of the judicial reform legislation have been ignored by the MSM.
I would not be moving to Israel, not with the muzzies just waiting for an opportunity to be presented by a Lefty insurrection.
Btw the thing about the Temple is from Josephus, his history is a fine read.
Quite so – a Lufthansa aircraft was hijacked and the pilot murdered, but the German performance at Munich was still pretty limpwristed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tore into NATO leaders including President Biden Tuesday for not extending NATO membership to his war-torn country — introducing fresh diplomatic drama into the annual gathering of the military alliance’s leaders.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/zelensky-slams-weakness-of-absurd-biden-stance-on-nato/
why doesn’t this apply to politicians? They fail constantly.
The AEC – completely impartial.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-11/craig-kelly-aec-criticised/102587884
The only sensible conclusion is that the Brereton Report is a cover up of worse things.
Otherwise, why would Reynolds be shilling for it?
I see Googlery is drinking deep from the Joe Vialls Kool-ade fountain.
Vague references to “government sources” and “intelligence reports” claiming that Mossad organised Entebbe.